Thursday, 31 August 2017

China says it will never allow war or chaos on its doorstep as tensions escalate on Korean Peninsula

Beijing
has stated it will not allow war or chaos on the Korean Peninsula,
Reuters reports, as US B-1B bombers and South Korean fighter jets
conduct a joint flight operation amid mounting tensions in the
region.

The
statement was made by
defense ministry spokesman Ren Guoqiang at a monthly

news briefing on
Thursday, Reuters reports.

Four
American warplanes – two nuclear-capable B-1B strategic bombers and
two Marine Corps F-35Bs, held a
joint flight operation with South Korean F-15K fighter jets on
Thursday, according to Yonhap.

Finally before I retire for the night there is the conflict in North Korea.I am posting two articles from Hal Turner, not because I necessarily trust him - and certainly NOT because I like white supremacists.I hope you will, like me, just file these in the back of your mind in the MAYBE category.It also gives a clue as to the thinking of the Trump regime - something I think is useful/Even the most vile people can speak some truth.Of course you're always welcome to put your trust in CNN if you like.

NORTH
KOREA CALLS MISSILE LAUNCH "PRELUDE TO GUAM"

North
Korea’s surprising missile shot over Japan is just the beginning of
more serious actions, according to state media.

North
Korea launched a Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile
(IRBM) over Japan early Tuesday morning, according to
the Korean Central News Agency. The state-run media outlet warned
that the launch was a “meaningful prelude to containing Guam,”
which North Korea perceives as a forward base for a possible allied
invasion.

The
North Korean military presented
a plan to
dictator Kim Jong Un in mid-August to launch four IRBMs into waters
around Guam earlier this month. Kim approved but decided to delay the
launch, expressing a desire to “watch a
little more the foolish and stupid conduct of the Yankees.”

“In
order to defuse the tensions and prevent the dangerous military
conflict on the Korean peninsula, it is necessary for the U.S. to
make a proper option first and show it through action,” the
North said at
the time, offering the U.S. the opportunity to defuse the situation.

North
Korea is dissatisfied with America’s answer.

“The
U.S. answered the DPRK’s warning which it will closely watch the
U.S. behavior with the bellicose war exercises for
aggression,” KCNA reported, referring to the ongoing Ulchi Freedom
Guardian exercises, annual joint military exercises involving
South Korean and American forces.

The
North “should show action, not talk, to the U.S. imprudently
denying the DPRK’s initiative measure for easing the extreme
tension,” state media explained.

North
Korea is still determined to offer the U.S. a way out though. “The
DPRK will continue to watch the U.S. demeanor as already
declared and decide its future action according to them,” KCNA
said, citing Kim Jong Un.

It
is unclear if North Korea is bluffing or revealing its legitimate
strategic intentions, but it is worth noting that Pyongyang has been
increasingly turning rhetoric into reality through advances in its
ballistic and nuclear weapons programs. Many observers suspected that
North Korea’s claims that it can field a nuclear-armed
intercontinental ballistic missile capable of threatening the
continental U.S. were bluster, but the country now has this kind of
weaponry.

While
it is essential to recognize propaganda, it is also important to
remember that North Korea has revealed critical
information on numerous occasions in its past
state media reports.

Regardless,
the North is signaling that it will be firing more missiles into the
Pacific. “It is necessary to positively push forward the work
for putting the strategic force on a modern basis by conducting more
ballistic rocket launching drills with the Pacific as a target in the
future,” KCNA reported.

I
wish to make it clear that I do NOT agree with any of the
political conclusions here. It is America that is a threat to North
Korea - not the other way round. This does possibly give a clue
to the thinking of the Trump regime.

If true, think what this means.

U.S. Informs UN Security Council

"We may withdraw from Korean

Armistice"

UPDATED
12:15 PM EDT SEE BOTTOM -
- As some of you may know, for 15 years (1993-2008) I worked as a
national security intelligence asset for the FBI. The final five
years, from 2003-2008, with their Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF).
In that role, I forged many close relationships with high level
people throughout the US Intelligence Community. All that ended
in 2008, and six months or so later, the Obama regime betrayed me by
Indicting me for an Editorial I wrote on this web site, in which I
said three judges in Chicago were Traitors to the Constitution who
"deserve to be killed." I said that was an Opinion;
the government said it was a "threat" -- putting me on
trial THREE TIMES (two hung juries) - and ultimately imprisoning me
for 33 months. Thankfully, despite the raw deal I got, I have
maintained close relationships with my former colleagues in the US
Intelligence Community, who feed
me detailed
information of importance.

At
5:00 this morning, my "Silent Circle" encrypted phone began
ringing off the hook. It was some of my former colleagues informing
me that the United States stunned the UN Security Council during its
closed session on Tuesday, by telling the world body "The
United States may withdraw from the Korean War Armistice" in
response to the firing of missiles by North Korea over the territory
of Japan and into the Pacific Ocean.

Ambassador
Nikki Haley was widely quoted by mass media as saying "Something
serious has to happen" as a result of the latest missile
barrage. But only now are the alleged details of that
"something serious" being leaked.

Sources
familiar with the discussions at the UN say the US told the UN it is
considering withdrawal
from the Armistice and
may further state "Any future missile launches or nuclear test
detonation by North Korea will result in resumption of hostilities on
the Korean Peninsula."

This
would be a "red line" that North Korea could not pass
without assurance of military action against it.

South
Korea is against such an announcement because it brings such absolute
clarity to the murky situation with North Korea. No one wants a war.
But the testing being done by North Korea has specific purposes for
FUTURE WAR by THEM!

Remember,
it was North Korea which invaded South Korea without warning in the
1950's.

In
three weeks, they pushed the South Koreans all the way south to Busan
before US forces arrived and pushed the North Koreans all the way
back to the Yalu River, at the China border.

It
was only then that China sent "volunteers" to aid North
Korea, resulting in three more years of bloody slug-fest until both
sides agreed to a Cease Fire (Armistice) setting the border back at
its original location of the 38th Parallel.

On
March 11, 2013, the North Korean army declared invalid the armistice
agreement that ended the Korean War in 1953, the official newspaper
of the country's ruling Workers' Party said.

North
Korea had been threatening to scrap the armistice after the U.N.
Security Council passed tougher sanctions against it in response to
its February 12 nuclear test.

On
March 11, 2013, the Rodong Sinmun newspaper reported that the
Supreme Command of North Korea's army had done so, saying "the
U.S. has reduced the armistice agreement to a dead paper," the
newspaper said.

North
Korea also cut off direct phone links with
South Korea at the inter-Korean border village of Panmunjom,
according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency. The phone line was the
emergency link for quick, two-way communication between the two
sides.

Since
the two sides remain technically at war, it remains to be seen
whether the invalidation means that either side
can resume hostilities.

From
that time, North Korea has undertaken a "military first"
national policy for the expressed purpose of reuniting the Korean
peninsula. Their pursuit of nuclear weapons is specifically
designed to prevent the US from returning to the Peninsula to assist
if the North attacks the South Again.

Put
simply, North Korea has been planning to takeover the South and wants
to make sure the US can't help them this time.

But
in creating nuclear weapons - in direct and repeated violations of UN
Security Council Resolutions -- North Korea set itself on a course to
be able to intentionally threaten U.S. cities with nuclear
destruction. And that course simply will not be tolerated by the US.

For
decades, various US Administrations "kicked the can down the
road" over the North Korea situation, opting to try
negotiations, foreign aid, food aid and dialogue. In those decades,
the US has been repeatedly lied-to, and made fools of, by the North
Koreans.

All
that ended with the election of Donald Trump as US President.

Realizing
the jig is up, both China and Russia agreed to vote in favor of
additional harsh economic sanctions via the UN Security Council last
month. Yet despite the very serious new sanctions, North Korea
proceeded to fire missiles over Japan.

This
prompted the Russian Foreign Ministry to say "Sanctions have
been exhausted."

Well,
if Sanctions have been exhausted, then there are only two choices
remaining:

Accept
North Korea as a nuclear power, OR;

Go
to war to stop North Korea

Few
can even imagine the US accepting North Korea as a nuclear power,
which is likely why Russia has begun evacuating citizens from
Vladivostok, in preparation for a likely severe military conflict in
the near future.